Very roughly, the drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion; what... is left is theater. Drama is immensely durable; after a thousand critical disputes, it is still there, undiminished, ready for the next wranglers. Theater is magical and evanescent; examine it closely and it turns into tricks of lighting, or the grace of a particular gesture, or the tone of a voice--and these are not its substance, but the rubbish that is left when magic has departed. Theater is the response, the echo, which drama awakens within us when we see it on the stage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the small naked children, running lightly in the sun beneath the palm-trees, the little girl's sex membership is as clear as he...r brother's, but there is less that she can do with it. When she trips and falls, she clutches at her head, or tries to fold her arms across her chest. Her femininity is concealed deep within her, nothing that she can touch and see, depend upon or flaunt. In those societies where children's sex membership is recognized by adults, in which the men treat the little girls with flirtatious attention and the women tease and challenge the small boys, the little girls respond with movements of the entire body, which undulates and postures in delicious indulgence of feminine response. The small boy struts, sometimes with emphasis on his penis, more often carrying hatchet, knife, stick, pole, in upward positions as he marches, parries, performs. His behaviour, however symbolic, is to the extent that it is male a concentrated phallic exaggeration, while his sister's is more diffuse and involves the whole body. The little boy is sure about his specific maleness, but seems not to be so sure of his adequacy to operate it. He supplements with various symbolic objects. Very often he shouts, adding the vigour of his voice to the vigour of his posturing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bare night is best. Bare earth is best. Bare, bare, Except for our own houses, huddled low... Beneath the arches and their spangled air, Beneath the rhapsodies of fire and fire, Where the voice that is in us makes a true response....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red,--it is not even t...he cause of woman v. man. Nay, 'tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So smooth, so sweet, so silvery, is thy voice As, could they hear, the damned would make no noise,... But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber) Melting melodious words to lutes of amber.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express ou...r true opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »